I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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